Yes, but consider that the US taxpayer pays per capita more or less what the Canadian taxpayer does on health care, while covering only Medicaid and Medicare.
The Canadian, on the other hand, doesn’t have insurance premiums or deductibles.
(For the record, I hate the CND health care system. It’s just that, knowing both systems, the US’ is worse :)
> No one works for free, the medicine costs money. The money comes from somewhere.
Why do some people think this is a shock?
Nobody thinks medicine is ever going to be free. That's a strawman position. You might as well argue in favor of universal toll roads by saying that roads are never going to be free, so suck it up and accept that you're going to pay $50 one-way every time you commute, and $200 one-way every time you get groceries: The people who protest that aren't saying roads are ever going to be free, they're just saying that better payment models exist.
How do you train a neurosurgeon? That level of specialization comes from maybe a few hundred in the U.S. With that level of scarcity (and demand), their time is going to be priced accordingly.
But s/he needn’t have a B.Arts in management to apply to med school first.
I don’t know what you mean by “Maybe a few hundred”. Do you mean schools or neurosurgeons?
If 1., there are only 150 med school for all Dr. in the US, contributing to a very low number of Dr. Per capita.
If 2. They study medicine. Do residency. And train on the job for the rest of their lives... just like today [0]
[0] actually one of the reasons for medical errors, a top three killer in the US, is that most Dr. don’t update their knowledge one thy finish their residency. :S
The Canadian, on the other hand, doesn’t have insurance premiums or deductibles.
(For the record, I hate the CND health care system. It’s just that, knowing both systems, the US’ is worse :)